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According to the "Eater's Digest & Nutrition Scorecard" (1976)
"In the 1820's Americans consumed only about 10 pounds per year, while in the 1870s we ate 40 pounds per year. By 1910 that was up to 87 pounds. Now the average person consumes 125 pounds* per year."
Pretty striking, huh? I wonder what it is up to now.
*(75 = sugar cane/beets, 48 = dextrose/corn syrup, 1-2 = honey)
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Good God, they're still peddling that that crap? Of course businesses are aroudn to make money -- that's why anybody starts one; the food industry isn't around to make America fit any more than than exercise equipment is around to make you fit. It's all about what you chose to do. Watch what you eat, exercise, use good judgement. Aisde from the mentally retarded, is there honestly a single adult alive, even many children these days, in an industrialized nation like America thyat doesn't know eating tons of treats and sugary sweeteners will make you fat?
There's anyways some other person or some other product to blame when a person won't take personal responsibility.
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Aisde from the mentally retarded, is there honestly a single adult alive, even many children these days, in an industrialized nation like America thyat doesn't know eating tons of treats and sugary sweeteners will make you fat?
Know it or not, they're ignoring it in droves, and driving up the numbers of obesity, diabetes, heart disease, etc.
Part of the trouble is that people are trusting manufacturers, and that's going to do a favor to nobody except stockholders, ultimately.
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The book "Fat, Salt, and Sugar: How the Food Giants Hooked Us" talks in detail about how the processed food industry has been playing us Americans like cheap guitars.
Example:
PepsiCo...change[d] the labeling of its Tropicana Peach Papaya Juice to reflect the facts that it has neither peaches nor papaya and is not a juice. [It did so because The Center for Science in the Public Interest pressured them to.]
"We're open to listening to legitimate concerns, and this seemed like a resonable concern," a PepsiCo official said in settling the Tropicana case.
(Moss, Michael. Fat, Salt, and Sugar: How the Food Giants Hooked Us, Random House, 2013)
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Jul 20, 2018 - 6:15 AM
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jackfu
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I'm old (63), and as the years go by I've noticed many differences in eating habits, lifestyles, etc. of people. When I dig out my old elementary school group photos, I notice how, for instance in the 60s we would have one or two "fat" kids in a class of ~24 or so.
Nowadays when I see school groups out and about; sometimes we have tour groups come through our labs at work, etc., I notice that kids that would have been considered "fat" back then seem to be the median size now and today's "fat" kids look to be truly obese.
I live in a rural area and my travels take me by areas of wealthy folks and very poor folks. One thing that always catches my attention is that in the wealthy areas (and I mean some millionaires), I never, never see kids playing outside in their yards or at the park areas some of these rich communities have.
Yet when I pass by poor neighborhoods, I almost always see kids out playing in their yards.
I remember when McDonalds introduced the "Big Mac". Up until then, all you had was the hamburger and the cheeseburger, no super-size this or that.
Look at the portion sizes served at restaurants nowadays compared to fifty years ago.
As for sugar, once it wasn't nearly as accessible to the common folk; now it's cheaper than water.
Is there a conspiracy to hook us on sugar and other stuff that can harm us if consumed in excess? I don't know. Do TV networks want us hooked on their shows, IPs want us hooked on their internet services, on and on?
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Part of the problem, I think, is that sugar is added to everything, so it's not just the donuts and other very obvious garbage. Sugar is regularly added to bread, pasta sauce, salad dressings, even some salty snacks. An individual yogurt serving can have more grams of sugar than a serving of some crappy breakfast cereal. It's everywhere.
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I eat very little junk food. Chocolate maybe once a month at best. 
